I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks.

Books make the soul float.

The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.Flavia de Luce

[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.

Without struggle there is no progress.

I was very dirty; I was a very dirty comic. There was no way I would have gotten on TV with the act I had when I first started.

Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.